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11/15/2005 16:45 #34260

Posted from a mobile phone using p:mobl!
Preparing for the reading
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paul - 11/15/05 16:59
I am in this readig and it's s tarting and I am still not prepared. So far I have a poem that is written from the results of a survey about people getting caught masturbating.

11/15/2005 02:07 #34259

Pee in the Pool
Category: fiction

The two men sat staring at the whiteboard. A line down the middle of the board separated two lists, one labeled "Life," the other "Death." Under "Life" were a few bullet points, written in all-caps. Under "Death" was only one phrase: "EVERYTHING else."

Quoted from: PiTP || A Participatory Digital Fiction by Shawn Rider



Forgot the link:

I thiought I'd post a link to my latest story for everyone. it's brand new, still wet behind the ears, so let me know if there's anything I need to be aware of. Read and enjoy...
shawnr - 11/15/05 22:31
No, no, no, I was (not) the lead singer for the Happy Mondays. And I did (not) shoot some XXX movies along the way... hehe Google is fun.
alison - 11/15/05 21:21
Shawn from Boy Meets World? Oh, wait. That was Shawn Hunter. The kid who played him was Rider Strong. Nevermind.

Oh, (e:shawnr).

Nevermind.

(This is a wonderful example of my particular brand of blondeness.)
paul - 11/15/05 10:22
Shawn, the link for PiTP is missing

11/12/2005 15:07 #34258

Posted from a mobile phone using p:mobl!
Sarah in front of her winning photos.
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11/08/2005 11:36 #34257

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Main street railroad bridge after voting
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shawnr - 11/08/05 23:10
It's almost exactly across Main street from the Tri-Main building (where Hallwalls used to be), just a bit south of where Fillmore and Main and Amherst intersect.
paul - 11/08/05 11:49
Where is that?

11/07/2005 22:41 #34256

Plot Patents == Spooky
Category: copyright

A Plot or Storyline Patent application seeks to patent the underlying novel and nonobvious storyline of a fictional story. Such protection is to be contrasted from the copyright protection of one of millions of possible expressions of an underlying storyline. The field of possible applications is broad, and may tentatively be split into an entertainment-advertisement dichotomy. The epitome of an entertainment application is an original, thought-provoking, often shockingly unique movie plot. Several potentially patentable features may have been found in the plots of, Memento, The Thirteenth Floor, Being John Malkovich, Butterfly Effect, The Game, Fight Club, The Matrix, Total Recall, The Truman Show, Minority Report, The Village, Groundhog Day, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to name a few. The epitome of an advertisement application is one of the many thoughtfully hilarious "Super Bowl commercials."

Quoted from: Knight and Associates - Applications



My friend Aaron dropped a link to this article about these guys, Knight & Associates, who are applying for plot patents on novel parts of plots and stories. This is insane. I mean, how can the Matrix even be argued -- when it is itself an amalgam of a dozen existing plots and the only novel thing it brought was a pause and spin camera aspect. It's nuts. Just nuts. And wrong.